Windows Phone To Get NFC Next Year

We recently heard that Windows Phone would be getting dual core processors next year and also support for LTE, and now Microsoft’s Andy Lees has shared some more information about Microsoft’s plans for Windows Phone in 2012.

Speaking at the Asia D conference, Andy Lees has confirmed that Microsoft will also be bringing NFC (near field communications), to future Windows Phone devices in 2012.

He also detailed more information about future plans for the Windows Phone platform with regards to hardware, at the moment Microsoft tightly controls what hardware can be used in Windows Phone devices, the main reason Microsoft did this was to stop fragmentation, and it would appear that they may give their hardware partners more control over the choice of components used in Windows Phone next year.